Word: southeast
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loves being on the move. He sits in the back of a white van, beaming as usual, surrounded by an entourage of lanky young lieutenants from Amazon.com the Web's biggest retail store and, someday, if Bezos gets it right, Earth's Biggest Store. The early-morning landscape of southeast Kansas hustles by: wood-frame houses, trailers, motels with lots of pickup trucks in their parking lots, a Kum & Go convenience store, cow pastures and the dull, forever flatness of the prairie. You've heard of places described as cow towns? Coffeyville was actually labeled Cow Town on maps...
...added that Let's Go researchers in Southeast Asia see getting sick as "inevitable" because of the difficulty of adjusting to the foreign environment...
...Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia are not the only regions travelers need to watch...
...shouldn't the University look overseas for cash? Think of the research possibilities the Southeast Asian Studies program would have if the Sultan of Brunei endowed them...
...this cannot be independently confirmed. But Chechen doctors who worked through the last war are grimly confident that once again civilians will be the main target. "Last time one [Chechen] fighter was killed for every 170 civilians," Ayub Baudin, head doctor of a hospital in Shali, about 16 miles southeast of Grozny, said during a visit to Chechnya last month. This time the fighters are better trained, he added, so more civilians will die for each dead guerrilla...